Saturday 25 January 2020

I’d Rather Go Blind

by Billy Foster, Ellington Jordan and Etta James

So, if you have had enough Burns by now, why not celebrate today the birthday(s) of Robert Boyle (1627), Anna Gardner (1816), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Virginia Woolf (1882), Florence Mills (1896), Witold Lutosławski (1913), Ilya Prigogine (1917), Arvid Carlsson (1923), Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927) or Benny Golson (1929)? As for me, I fancy to play some Etta James (1938–2012) who, incidentally, was born the same day as Vladimir Vysotsky. Here is a 1975 live version of I’d Rather Go Blind, originally recorded in 1967 and released the following year.

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